San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-09-16
CHAPTER XIV

ter for you from lndiar'
Twas hoping for il, and my thoughts were
back at the old Grange as | stood by the
window Of the schoo!room. waiting for nv
pupiIs 10 come "a breakfast. There was a
Tree in the ,nr,I.n inst ontside the window
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mn'In leu,', ., n1 Jus' .it''e Vi olo near
the lake al MarlandS, ana the boys marvel
led why cared for that old gnarled ash.
Ernie, the eldest, came rushing into the
apartment impetuously from the dining
room, where the pOst-bag had been opened
"Here Miss Thorne-ym like IN get let.
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thiHk u go 10 ihu'a "heh vi man: its
Jolly big place, ami you've only to SIT and
be punkahed, and let the blackies do every
thing, and go out tiger-ShOoting when you
ike think would do that every day,
and XIII frlghtfully big ones, and mamma
would put the skins on the drawng-room
ho0r, and say, My son In India shot that
'eiiow!
eooh 'ne el,'eiopo ,ioiI MN put oihy
S,, " ' ,,'''r In Nv. .i'l"s MY"
tha children sant ant for haIfa an homr's rIoy
and was aInn. n.fnra nnening tho cnver I
could not read Gwendoline's letters in the
| niJs, 81 THAR MARRY ch,t,.r and Jis,rao,aJ
h,' ,haIr tananI, "''' ''''' ~ '''
" IN M, ,...op ,,
Inc letter began III sudden lmpetuOus
way, as II she were speaking, but II held me
spell-bOund from first to last
Won bear TO think of me. 10 write To meP
WHY don't Won p0ison the dear kind letters
| Won send me and tell me how Won detest my
nameP Viola. Viola. / never Guessed what
| / had done-I never dreamedr'
M what wac Che dreaming no,vp
5u NV U ,1 vi niy scr anu MIat YOU
,lau uolle lIi me never vi Mliat IeluIh your ou
| hlhuii.o1 hiSiit mi DiouIht W ypu; vi,
no" coSid you sun nc SIen' anu let me
escaPe. ipm you nus iiaio llieLDut nor
more tnaii natc my anu cohaeIlu the
weak i93 H., 1iice waS. NY dea, irieIu anu
ols'eI, uon >, A"o" 'o" W "i''o !" you vi
"na' " say
| Inc Writing was all unsteady ana shaken,
| and the marks OF tears were on the page.
Dear, noble, impulsive GwendOline? What
| would not do TO helm her?
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| nave iearheu ah lho sVory' she went
on. what story!
colbert is here"
| NJ, boor, hoo, foroo,, ,yb,, Al .ho
L. -, ,",Li,. III '' '"o
meah' he khe" hotiiii's W 'eii her.
HE has been wandering about the earth,
and he came here at last to us and asked if
Martin could get him an appointment. So
heard the truth; you and he are parted for
| everl He would not tell Inc why, though
| urged him to give me an explanation. |
think there must have been dark shallow
| of suspicion, great terrible fear looming
in my brain. Still he held out, and would
say nOthing-nOthing-. he fell i'll Of fever
few days afterwards; and he was weak,
| and thought he should not live. Then he
told meme alOne-as knelt by his side.
81 want you to tell her. he said, If any
thing should happen to me, that forgave
| her, and that did not believe what they
said to me, but only what myself knew. |
believe she cared Tor me before Crawford
| Garden made use OF the time my uncle at
forded him to entrap her heart / believe
she would have confessed she did not love
| me at first; but that Will Sllcnced her. She
| thought TO marry me for pity, and she re-
turned his letters TO Cardcn-l saw IL done
| and she would have tried Ia keen me de-
| ceiyed and been true IN me-in wav I
| was angry. madIv angry. bnt when came
to think OF her her sweetness and her frank
| bright ewes. | saw this must he the answer,
| left her: il was ali / couId do. hated the
| Grange and the money and I hated Garden :
| but couId not hate her There was no
| truth in what Hiida said-that Viola was
| marrying me to stOD legal action and secure
| the Grange, while she loved and always had
| loved Garden Tell UiIda from me that She
| was wrOngp
| "Viola, what do Won think couId saw or
| doP / was turned IN Ice cnnId NOT move
| He smoke So earnestly nleading and ex-
| planning, and was dumb. I saw II ali in a
| tightning-hash that scorched and burnt
| me Thought nv Sin hurled and fnryotten
and II shot ont In aame hafora NV ayeS
| fancied mo harm had heen done j'bad heen
| stODped in time and was safe. and I forgot
| Won Viola vo, do not Knew what II IL IN
| have snant SycL a dav a. INT ,vaS 10 mo
| Yon viii never know II vom had nerhanS
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